Are You Trying to Stop Them From Dying?

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People who are hiding any sort of diminution of their skills, i see this all the time. People may not be doing this in terms of cosmetic procedures, but they'redoing the equivalent of cosmetic procedures by hiding things that they're doing that aren't going as well as they used to there. If you find yourself acting in a way that you don't admire out of fear, and it has to do with the fear of the performance of your job, that's a telltale sign. That's a dead giveaway that you're in a process of terror, and you're fighting against the the you know, raging against the dying of the light.

#363: In our 20’s and 30’s, we have high levels of fluid intelligence, or raw intellectual horsepower. We can ace tests, impress people with our memory and recall, and analyze facts, documents and data.

But in our 40’s and 50’s, we have higher levels of crystallized intelligence, which allows us to draw together novel insights from across domains.

Fluid intelligence allows us to analyze, or break apart.

Crystallized intelligence allows us to synthesize, or put together.

Each type of intelligence invites us to express different skills, to pivot our role at work – or perhaps even to change careers or industries altogether.

In today’s episode, Harvard professor Arthur Brooks discusses these two types of intelligence, and outlines how we can gracefully move from one strength to the next.

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